I was choking, sputtering, trying desperately to breathe, and I realized with horror that it wasn’t the Barrons/Mac persona that was choking. It was my body. I pulled back, yanked back, stumbled back, ripped myself from Barron’s mind. It wasn’t easy to untangle us. His hand was on my throat. Mine was on his. “What the fuck?” V’lane exploded. It was the most human sentence I’d ever heard him utter. He’d been watching us but had no idea what had happened. Our battle had been a private one. Barrons and I stared at each other. We released each other’s throats at the same moment. I backed up a
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